Be in the know. 13 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. Will A ‘Bored Billionaire’ Compete Against Boeing, Lockheed Martin? (Investor’s Business Daily)
  2. Tesla Easily Beat a Ford F-150 in a Tug of War. It Should Try an F-450 Instead. (Barron’s)
  3. Activist investor Starboard Value takes stake in CVS a year after Aetna merger (New York Post)
  4. Toys R Us comeback: The new company’s first toy store opens Wednesday (USA Today)
  5. Trump Says China Deal in ‘Final Throes’ as Top Officials Speak (Bloomberg)
  6. Emmanuel Macron Has an Algorithm for Taking Control of Europe (Bloomberg)
  7. 16 brilliant quotes from Bill Gross, the legendary ‘Bond King’ who retired earlier this year (Business Insider)
  8. Opinion: 4 reasons why this bull market in stocks will keep going in 2020 (MarketWatch)
  9. Hedge Fund Rules That Keep Out Not-So-Rich Poised for SEC Revamp (Bloomberg)
  10. China front-loads $142 billion in 2020 local government bonds to spur growth (Reuters)
  11. White Castle gets its ugly sweater on (Fox Business)
  12. Jim Cramer: Here’s Why the Market Hasn’t Stopped Rallying (TheStreet)
  13. Balance sheet relief could come sooner than expected for Chesapeake – Scotiabank (Financial Post)